\n\”Woody Allen and I used to play a little game,\” says Martin Landau, who portrays the owner of an aged movie house in Frank Darabont\’s new film, \”The Majestic.\”\n\n\”I\’d say \’The Elm,\’ and he\’d say, \’The Midwood.\’ I\’d say \’The Kenmore\’ and he\’d say, \’The Avalon.\’\”
Woody Allen doesn\’t stutter excitedly when he speaks. Nor does he wave his hands in a state of exaggerated panic.
In the world of moviemaking, Woody Allen is an auteur. In the world of jazz, Woody Allen is a rock star.
Woody Allen once said the shortest book ever written was the one on Jewish athletes. Well, here is the shortest chapter in that book: Since May 1987, Argentinean native Imach Marcello Solomon (a k a Hoshitango) has been wrestling his way up in the competitive sumo leagues in Japan.
\”People think I\’m being facetious when I say I once toyed with a life of crime,\” filmmaker Woody Allen recently told 1,400 students, professors and alumni during a standing-room-only screening of his new comedy, \”Small Time Crooks,\” at UCLA\’s Wadsworth Theater.
Before films such as \”Radio Days,\” Woody Allen had his television days.
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